- losing it’s most passionate advocates and users; How many users left? It also might be filtering some of the more obnoxious users. Once a brand hits a critic

- losing it’s most passionate advocates and users; How many users left? It also might be filtering some of the more obnoxious users. Once a brand hits a critical mass that doesn't always matter. Think of everyone valve and facebook "alienated" over the years. Did it matter at all? Reddit quite literally wants it's users to be "alienated" like other social media sites, because it goes with the territory of making money. It's not like the reddit utopian dreams are still alive. Don't moderate, and you get racists, molesters, etc., and they tell everyone to drink the poison... what's the point anymore? - driving whole communities to its competitors (federated and discord specifically); Are these anywhere close to viable options? I haven't heard of federated, and discord is pretty bad for organizing public forums. It excels at group chat, not news discussions with very large groups. - just utterly shredding managements credibility with their users; I'm shocked it had any left to begin with. I suppose these are teh "noob users"? If you started ~2008-2012, none of this is surprising at all, and you have limited respect remaining for the platform... this was clear after the redesign, at the very latest. - and inspiring a generation of entrepreneurs to engage in building platforms to supplant replace them that definitely would not otherwise exist. How many new social media platforms have you seen of late? I wouldn't be surprised either way, but don't count on it. - So much winning. Gold star for everyone involved. Case study on how to manage community forthcoming. Case study that you should not try to be the good guy. These types of unpopular decisions should be made earlier. Reddit lost out on a lot of money by delaying the inevitable. Now it's very likely that it will take a greater reputational hit, because it didn't give up it's college fantasies quickly enough. We all know the least successful companies are the ones that make these unpopular decisions... you know like: Apple, Facebook, Valve, insta, twitter, etc., etc. Wouldn't want to be like those losers!